The Sea Captain (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Sea CaptainThere is a portrait of him. The Elizabethan artist, as usual, makes him without complexion and very respectable. But I do not believe in that. He is a lean lumbering weight Of a man. His brow would be too big for his head if he had not such a mass Of jaw. Under the shade Of the brow there is a stabbing grey glint Of uncommon eyes. There he Sits with hands prosperously folded, prosperously ordi nary in his white ruff and black velvet and gold chain. There's his wife, sedate in the placid beauty Of her St. Martin's summer, tender and gentle and pure. But - but she has a smile. I protest he was not respectable. Hear how he began.He earned, I suppose, by the year, two angels - say a pound - with all the mutton and beer he could swallow, with grey frieze enough to keep him warm in no stockings, with a mat Of rushes and a log by the kitchen fire to make him bed and pillow when he slept indoors. He was a Berk shire Shepherd when Mary, Who burnt the heretics, was Queen. He had no name but Dick, like his father the, swineherd before him. The maids called him silly shep herd because they found him a heavy lout and dull.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.